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Sanal Mohan, P.,

Modernity of slavery : struggles against caste inequality in colonial Kerala / P. Sanal Mohan. - First edition. - New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2015. - xix, 345 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-338) and index.

List of Abbreviations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Colonial Transformations: Situating the Experience of Slave Castes in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Kerala
2. Discourses and Constructions of Slavery in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Kerala
3. Discourses on Struggles against Inequalities: Dalit Movements in the Early Twentieth-century
4. Prathyaksha Raksha Daiva Sabha and the Imagining of Equality in Twentieth-century Kerala
5. Memory and Experience: Discourses of Slavery
6. Discourses of History and the Making of Community
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the Author.


This text pushes further the debates on colonial modernity by bringing to the fore Dalit experience in Kerala. The question of social identity is addressed in this study by analysing the problems of Dalit identity in Kerala. The book is a product of interdisciplinary research based on new archival and ethnographic materials which contributes to debates on colonial modernity.

ISBN: 9780198099765 (hbk.) Rs1195.00 0198099762 (hbk.)

LCCN: 2015490090

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Dalits--History.--India--Kerala
Dalits--Social conditions.--India--Kerala
Dalits.
Dalits--Social conditions.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
India--Kerala.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
History.

Dewey Class. No.: 305.5688095483 MOH / 008838